Thursday, April 18, 2019
coincidence?
last week visited a nearby guild and on the free table was this little book of geometric quilts in lovely solids.....
back in my formative quilting days, was never a devotee of gwen marston's simply because i was too rigid and cautious, aka no confidence at all in being "liberated"....and now this week she has passed on...joining so many others who inspired novice quilters like me in the 1970s and 1980s, people like mary ellen hopkins, virginia avery, jeff gutcheon, yvonne porcella, jean ray laury, monica calvert, sally palmer field....thus this little but powerful book is now more important as a testament to gwen's liberating style. flip thru old quilt mags and you'll find gwen giving advice and encouragement to many who yearned to earn the title of quilter....another empty seat at the frame.....
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Very cool that this book just came into your possession.
ReplyDeleteIt is so sad. Gwen was so vivacious with boundless energy. Her quilts and her inspiration will live on forever in quilters like us!
ReplyDeleteThere are no coincidences, it is God winking. You were meant to have the book. And, to add to your list of empty seats at the frame: Doreen Speckman. Yes, I too, were influenced and inspired by these quilting greats who leave us all the richer today.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on scoring that classic book. What timing! SEW sad to see another great quilter head off to that Quilting Bee in the sky.
ReplyDeleteIn reading back thru your blog posts, I saw a Cabana Daydreams top that you were working on. Google was not my friend when I tried to find the pattern. Any chance you would share the source of that pattern. I absolutely love yours.
ReplyDeletei cannot recall where i found it...i think it was in a magazine years ago but not under that name...i'm sorry i neglected to get the name of the designer also...
Deletei found "wynkoop court" on pinterest but the pattern i used predates this...the hexies are half hexies...it might have been quiltmaker...
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